by Cathy Hanson | Aug 22, 2017 | HAS, News, Stories
I try not to get into current political stuff here because that is not the purpose of this blog. But there is one thing I’ve heard over and over this past week that had me yelling at the television and my phone. I was bothered by comments that George Washington...
by Cathy Hanson | Aug 15, 2017 | HAS, News, Stories, Travel
If you travel to the United Kingdom and tour a historic house, park or garden, there is a good chance that attraction is part of the National Trust. To preserve and protect history and heritage, the United Kingdom has a charity called National Trust for Places of...
by Cathy Hanson | Feb 21, 2017 | HAS, News, Stories
When Donald Trump alluded on Saturday to some horrible event that had happened in Sweden the previous day, you can imagine the tweets in response. One response came from @sweden, the official Twitter account for the country. They stated that the only thing that...
by Cathy Hanson | Feb 7, 2017 | HAS, News, Research Tips
Currently our news cycles are stuffed full of BREAKING NEWS. I love that there can be breaking news in history, even if it isn’t urgent enough to require ALL CAPS. This particular news will probably have a wide-ranging and long-lasting effect on historical...
by Cathy Hanson | Jan 24, 2017 | HAS, News, Stories
I’ve mentioned in previous blog posts the difficulty in studying history when original sources do not exist. Documents and art that were destroyed in war or by natural disaster cannot be recreated. But how will the resources we are now creating hold up for future...
by Cathy Hanson | Dec 19, 2016 | HAS, News, Stories
I have a hard time conceptualizing the numbers of people that are suffering in Aleppo. And the various factions and countries and history and strategies and politics involved are, for many of us, difficult to understand. So I wanted to find a point of connection other...
